Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Curium-247:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:247.070347±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):65.527622±0.004434MeV
    Binding Energy:1852.983185±0.004446MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.044970±0.006549MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: 9/2-
  • Half life: 15600000 years ( 4.92024×10+14 sec., λ = 1.40877×10-15 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    243
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 5.353 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    247
    95
    Am
    α from
    251
    98
    Cf
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
01.6x10*7y9/2- 0.36(7) [241Am]EPRPL 44A 527 (73)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.